Africa Now People, Policies & Institutions

About this book

This overview of Africa is intended as an introduction for people who have a professional contact with the continent, such as workers in NGOs and international organizations, investors in emerging markets, bankers and people in business, diplomats, as well as teachers and students.

Contents

Part One States and citizens: Africa in perspective; nationalism, ethnicity and democracy; youth and violence; movements of religious renewal; building public morality. Part Two Institutions and policies: the institutional foundations of growth; formal and informal economic activities; the diversity of adjustment in agriculture; constraints on manufacturing production; an agrarian continent in transition. Part Three Africa in the world: the crisis of the state; regional integration; the politics of aid effectiveness; some legal aspects of migration; Africa's future and the world.

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